What is The Heritage Group?

Since its founding from humble beginnings in 1930, The Heritage Group has been building innovative companies to turn big challenges into bigger opportunities.

Today it is a fourth generation family-owned business managing a diverse portfolio of companies specializing in heavy construction and materials, environmental services, and specialty chemicals. The Heritage Group is proud to invest in the communities where it operates, leverage deep technical expertise and resources to create positive environmental and social change, and build lasting businesses by investing in employees and their families.

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The Center

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Environmental Services

For more than 45 years, The Heritage Group has been developing environmentally-sustainable solutions. Today, The Heritage Group companies have more than 100 locations across North America with services including:

  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • Beneficial Reuse of Waste and recycled products
  • Zero waste and low carbon initiatives

Construction & Materials

Heritage Construction & Materials companies build roads, bridges and other commercial projects across the Midwest USA and in China.

  • Asphalt Products
  • Aggregates
  • Road & Bridge Construction

Specialty Chemicals

With several sites in North America and one in Europe, Monument Chemical is a leader in custom chemical manufacturing and speciality chemicals from pilot to large scale, including:

  • High Performance Solvents and Urethanes
  • Chemical Intermediates
  • Tolling for specialty organics (fuels and oils)

Research & Development

With more than 50 chemists, engineers, industrial hygienists, and technical staff, we take a team approach to solving the tough problems Collaborating in the lab and in the field, we offer significant central R&D resources including:

  • Organic and inorganic chemistry
  • Materials characterization
  • Engineering and Scale Up
  • Standard test methods
  • Formulation
  • Infrastructure Materials

Partnering

We leverage the expertise, assets, and relationships of The Heritage Group to help entrepreneurs execute their visions.

Partnership Characteristics

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  • checkmark Long-term experience with sales and marketing strategies in hardtech industries
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